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Comparison of wiki hosting services

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This comparison of wiki hosting services or wiki farms is not comprehensive, it details only those 'notable' enough (in Wikipedia terms) to be included. A useful comprehensive comparison of wiki farms can be found on MediaWiki's site, at mw:Hosting services.

Online services which host wiki-style editable web pages. General characteristics of cost, presence of advertising, licensing are compared, as are technical differences in editing, features, wiki engine, multilingual support and syntax support.

Table of services

This table compares general information for several of the more than 100 wiki hosting services that exist.[1]

All the mentioned services have WYSIWYG editing.

Wiki hosting service Founded Cost Ad supported Content license Subdomain Custom themes Database download / backup Other Features Base wiki engine Language Syntax support
Confluence Hosted
2004
Non-free[a] ? No ? ? Plugins, SSL, file storage, permissioning, WebDAV. WYSIWYG Rich-text editor[2]
script plugin
No formulas
iMeet Central
2005
Non-free ? No ? ? Access control, full-text search, calendaring, single sign-on to multiple projects, project templates, RSS enabled. [?] (custom) HTML,[1]
CSS/templating
No formulas
Ourproject.org
2002
Free No[3] Copyleft (choice of Creative Commons, GNU FDL, other licenses) Yes ? ? Mailing lists, FTP, SSH, ddbb, email alias, backups, CVS/SVN, forums, task management. MoinMoin by default; custom supported Supports English, Spanish, French, and many other languages.
PBworks
2005
Non-free No Yes Yes ? No page limits, SSL, RSS & Atom, email notifications, file management, page access settings. [?] (custom) All HTML,[1]
JavaScript,
LaTeX formulas
Fandom
2004
Free Yes Creative Commons Yes, but not for multilingual wikis Yes Yes Common login and common preferences to all wikis of FANDOM for the same user. Blog, User Page, and User Talk pages for users. MediaWiki All languages Wikipedia exists for (and some more); Community Support in English, Chinese, German, Japanese, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, French and several other languages.[citation needed] Wikitext as used by MediaWiki,
Some HTML,[1] JavaScript,
Math formula,
Lua
WikiTide
2023
Free No Creative Commons (customizable) Yes Yes Yes Supports public wikis. MediaWiki All languages supported Wikitext as used by MediaWiki,
Math formula,
CSS and JavaScript,
Lua

Deprecated wiki hosts

This section is for hosts that were previously in the list above but no longer are up and running.

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Confluence has no free hosted option, but offers free software for charitable nonprofits and open source projects.

References

  1. ^ a b c d "WikiMatrix - Compare them all" (selectable table), WikiMatrix, 2007, webpage: wikimatrix-org-main.
  2. ^ "Confluence wiki markup syntax | Confluence Cloud".
  3. ^ "Ourproject.org Manifesto". Ourproject.org. July 2006. Retrieved 2019-11-25.